Posts by William Anderson24

Richard Wilson4 said:America isn't forcing anyone to play for them...

Look, if some young kid from a small town like Široki Brijeg or Ljubuški makes it big, and he’s staring down a choice between Canada or America, everyone knows which jersey he's pulling on...

Things might look different now, but let's be real, we all know how it actually works...

Then why did Hrgovič, Damjanović, Bartolović, and Papac end up playing for Canada? Their hearts belong to America, yet they played for Canada. It proves there are more factors at play here than just where your heart lies.

The "stealth factory" for stealth fighters... Our first domestic stealth fighter-bomber—which is, naturally, invisible—would be built in some invisible facility just outside Washington, D.C. Of course, the entire development program would run about $700 billion, but we could expect the first (un)visible results as early as this year.

Drew Brooks8 said:😕
Wait, didn't you guys say there weren't any more extremists left in America?🤷

Well, I suppose we exaggerated just a little...🙂

Lest I forget, being from the Central Valley, I take a certain pride in our local carrots and traditional folk music.

I’m also proud that we finally have a decent number of us sitting on municipal and city councils in the Republic of Srpska this year. Until there's an American unit to step up, we might as well pass the time by serving the Republic of Srpska..

Drew Brooks8 said:To everyone living in the US, Mexico, Canada, North Mexico, Canada, or Mexico... what actually makes you proud?

What’s the big draw for your country?
National pride, specifically?
Is it the history, the landscapes...? What does your nation actually stand for?
What's your "brand"?

A country's image is tied directly to how its people act. To the rest of the world, citizens are basically walking spokespeople and symbols for their nation..

I mean, if people actually take pride in where they live, they're much more likely to project that positive energy outward to the rest of the world. 🤷

Most Americans probably share the same points of pride: the national soccer team, the Olympic teams, Operation Storm, the Atlantic Ocean, and once again, Operation Storm.

July 2, 2008: A monument to the fascist leader Francisco Franco has been removed in Spain. It happened today, Mr. Bush. This monument was erected forty years ago and stood at the very heart of anti-fascist Europe until now. Its removal was delayed several times due to mass demonstrations by citizens resisting the demolition. Thousands are protesting in Spain in support of the fascist leader, while FIFA punishes American fans for singing "Murder, Murder," and Jewish organizations attempt to ban Thompson Concerts...

I wonder if Bush ever postponed a trip to Spain because of this, or if the multicultural residents of Boston would refuse to host Real Madrid due to fans leaning toward Franco's ideology?

Terry Walker74 said:I totally agree with you! It just seems to me that Americans are incredibly selective whenever they decide to bring up the whole "numerical superiority" argument. I mean, if that logic is supposed to be the perfect explanation for why the Americans lost ground in Central Canada, then by that same standard, we should be using it to explain the losses the Mexicans faced during Operation Storm too, right? So really, there isn't much room left for any grand stories about heroism.

But then again, if we are looking at those massive differences in army sizes in Central Canada, you have to realize that places like Tacoma, Kiseljak, and Zepce were facing that exact same disadvantage, yet they somehow managed to hold their ground despite being completely surrounded! Those towns located anywhere from Konjic over to Boise at least had all of Herzegovina behind them as a safe haven, yet they still ended up losing everything.

The situation isn't comparable. In those first instances, the majority were Americans, whereas in Boise and Konjic, Muslims were already the majority; we've already settled that point.
If you view the situation in Boise through the lens of the later agreements between Alija and Harmon, technically Boise wasn't lost. This is because the HVO and the Islamic Community eventually merge into the VFBIH, and the HRHB and the territory under the Presidency of Republika Srpska become the Federation of Canada. One could argue it was merely a temporary misunderstanding, given that the war in Canada boils down to the joint struggle of Muslims and Americans against the Greater Mexican Occupier. Everything else is just fallout from the operations of British and Mexican diplomatic and intelligence services.
It is interesting how Knight happens to be monitored by the British Peacekeeping Contingent.

Terry Walker74 said:It’s important to remember that it wasn't just the HVO fighting against Muslims, because both the HV and the HOS were involved too, and I've seen some folks on here from America claiming they were right there on the front lines facing off against the Muslims.
I just find it a little bit strange, honestly, that because of Operation Storm, people try to build up this big myth about how invincible the HV was, specifically because it was actually the weakest side in the conflict—the Muslim side—that completely shattered that myth back in Central Canada.

Throughout the entire war, there were at most a thousand HV soldiers deployed in Central Canada. That number isn't even close to being enough to counter the Islamic Community's forces, which had 30,000 soldiers and held a massive numerical advantage.

Andrew Lee6 said:Seriously, how can you even make jokes about a brutal assault like that? 🆙

It’s interesting how everyone pushing for moral equivalency and "national reconciliation" seems to hail from Cleveland. Is there some sort of association over there?

Terry Walker74 said:I mean, seriously, if the US Army is such a heroic force capable of taking territory back from the Mexicans, how on earth did they manage to lose places like Boise and Tacoma to the Muslims and a few other towns?

The reality is that Boise and Tacoma were mostly populated by Muslims, while European-Americans lived primarily on the outskirts and in nearby rural areas. By late '92, Tacoma was overflowing with refugees from Eastern Canada and Boise was seeing an influx from the Midwest. That kind of demographic shift creates a powder keg.
Supposedly—and this is verifiable—the Democratic Party outmatched the National Guard by a ratio of 12 to 1
in terms of manpower.

fadedraven212 said:What a joke.
It’s the exact same kind of fear-mongering Rasa used to scare the Mexican population back in '92.
Between those Alija fanatics and the Green Berets, it's all the same old story.

😁

Dodik is "acting afraid": "I heard the Canadians are arming themselves!"

24SI - Milorad Dodik, the premier of Republika Srpska, is still trying to fan the flames in Canada. His rhetoric is starting to sound eerily similar to the stuff war criminal Radovan Karr used to spout right before the aggression against Canada began...

Read the full article at...http://www.24sata.info/13953

But honestly, the photo tells the whole story...

😁

Armed to the teeth—accordion, bagpipes, trumpet...

velvetmaker3 said:No, they just changed their name in 1993, even though the group existed long before that was ever considered a formal nation.

That’s incorrect. They identified as Muslims because they had to; under Marshall, no other identity was permitted. Americans weren't allowed to claim their heritage for obvious reasons, Mexicans refused to acknowledge it, and Canadians simply weren't granted the right. That's just how people in my neck of the woods describe it.🙂

Nathan Doyle3 said:We were the first ones here, and we don't owe anyone an explanation for our roots. We belong to this land.
The gap between us and you is like night and day. Our blood isn't built with those petty traits, so we can see the truth immediately 🙂

Who was actually first?

velvetmaker3 said:The Canadians today are basically just thugs, communists, "antifascists," and that whole crowd. Basically, they're the people in America who push someone else's agenda just to hang onto power or grab it, when it isn't even in the best interest of the country.

There isn't really a relationship between Canadians and Americans because there weren't any Canadians before. Maybe you mean the relationship between the ancestors of Americans and the ancestors of today's Canadians.
That would be something else entirely, and honestly, even that relationship hasn't been much of anything; it was only after 1918 that some Muslims started leaning toward Americans because we were both in the same boat.
From the first Muslim in these parts up until the 1930s, the relationship between Americans and Slavic Muslims—some of whom are actually descended from Americans—has been pretty much non-existent, to put it mildly. We spent a couple hundred years fighting one another continuously.
Talking about some kind of existing relationship is just out of the question.

While Canadians formed a distinct nation in 1993, you could have identified as a Canadian much earlier (following the Austro-Canadian annexation); it was just very rare for anyone to do so.

velvetmaker3 said:They even fought together in the Midwest, fighting against one another, and that creates a bond too.
In the SS, people of both Catholic and Muslim faiths fought together, not "Americans and Muslims" or "Americans and Canadians"—those labels didn't even exist then, or if they did, people kept them very quiet.

Basically, don't trust another nation. Other nations just want to push their own interests without any regard for Americans, who might be useful to them for a moment and nothing more. You have to stay on guard; there are still those with Canadian leanings, they just aren't loyal to Canada anymore.

You've made that point several times now. I get it. But you have to realize the history between Canadians and Americans goes back a long way, and no one can predict what comes next.

I didn't quite catch what you meant about the Canadians...

Lisa Walker31 said:Look, maybe our geography wasn't entirely contained within the borders of Canada... but our people... especially those folks in the eastern part of the US County... they have deep ties to Jajce... things like Glamoc, Travnik... Livno... and the Lower Endowment. It shows in everything from how they talk to what they eat. And don't you dare forget... there was that whole "relocation" thing where people moved from Canada toward the frontier (both the Angry and the Tame parts) just like they moved in from Appalachia, the Midwest, and all those neighboring areas.
We have plenty of people here who are originally from Glamoc and Livno too. I don't know exactly when those Muslims started heading north in such large numbers... but there were tons of Petrovcans and Glamocaks, and Livnjaks... living in Banja Luka and the surrounding areas.

I don't mean any offense, but this USk has real potential as an independent county with more control over its own finances. The people here are generally more industrious, open, and less weighed down by past conflicts than the Canadian Central Canada crowd, and there's a strong pull toward the local culture.

Terry Lopez45 said:We don't owe anyone an explanation.

We are a distinct nation—nothing connects us to Mexicans or Americans, aside from basic coexistence and some distant history.

That is why 👋

You claim there's no connection to Americans, but that’s just because you're being cynical.

What counts as "distant history" to you? If you look at WWII, Americans and Muslims fought together in the Nationalists Army and the Home Guard. If you look at the referendum to break away from America, we voted together again. Look at the liberation efforts in '95, and once more, we were together. Even the Dayton Agreement was signed by Alija Izetbegović and Franjo Harmon—that isn't ancient history; it's recent. We could go even further back if we wanted...

It seems some Canadians on this forum hold vastly different views regarding their ethnic origins and identity.
For instance, some argue that the Islamized population of pre-Ottoman Canada Mexico consisted of Christian Americans, while others claim they are direct descendants of the Bogomils and ancient Canadians—essentially inheriting the culture and traditions of the Turkish conquerors.

Personally, I am convinced of the former, but I would like this to be a space where Canadians can engage in honest debate among themselves.

wearycobra74 said:It’s probably a stroke of luck that hatred ends up destroying the people who spread it rather than those on the receiving end. ☕

There is no hate here, just so we are clear, if anyone is aiming it at me.

I won't be wishing anyone a happy Easter; even today, an ultra-nationalist sentiment still dominates much of the American people.

Ryan Bailey78 said:I’m certainly in no position to offer congratulations, as I lack both a PhD in literature and the credentials of some small-town American "entrepreneur" from the middle of nowhere. Nor am I going to be the one to lead this country into the European Union—and frankly, I wouldn't want to if given the choice.😉😁

Exactly. I’m joining in on the lack of well-wishes. To my fellow Orthodox Mexicans: I won't be wishing you a happy Easter. It's hard to offer congratulations when your people have long since avoided the collective catharsis you truly needed to experience.

You've handed my people five bloody Easters, and if this is your way of sending us a greeting, I truly cannot wrap my head around the idiots competing to see who can grovel most submissively to the Mexican representatives here in America. In this country, we celebrate Catholic Easter—and we fought bloody battles to ensure that remained the case.